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sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2004-08-25 19:41:01 UTC
Subject: RE: reaktion of vaccine
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5608533.1093462861899.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Author wrote:
> I have just heard from a cat person that some cats have no reaktion the first vaccine and then the second vaccine or later reacts allergic.. does this also happen with ferret on fervac d?
That is the norm.
To understand this you have to know how an individual's body begins to see something as an allergen which should be attacked.
First there has to be an exposure to the ingredient or to something which looks very much like that ingredient to the ferret's immune system. If it looks like it to the immune system then the immune system may generalize and place "blame" not only on one compound where it doesn't belong, but even to broader categories which remind it of the compound it falsely thinks is an enemy.
During that exposure the individual's immune system incorrectly identifies the compound as an invader.
Time passes.
The ferret has the compound again and WHAM (!) the ferret's immune system says "This is an enemy invader." and begin to react. How strongly it reacts depends on how much of an invader it thinks the compound is. The body actually has the ability to react so strongly that the reaction itself can be fatal.
So, you see, the first exposure where the body got confused caused the body to incorrectly identify something which posed no hazard as an enemy, and then in the next exposure the body the body reacted so incorrectly and sometimes so strongly that even self-destruction is possible.
When reactions happen at first exposure to a particular vaccine it is typically because there is something in the liquid matrix holding the vaccine which the ferret had before and had already developed an allergy to, or something which it includes in a general category of falsely labeled threats.